Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERFruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.
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A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.
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If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.
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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
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The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
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The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.
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Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
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